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(Application filed Aug. 17, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrioa.

vHENRY PITT ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ABBOTT S.MITCHELL, OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND WILLIAM G. J EWETT,

or LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAlN POLEMAIIND HANG: ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,817, dated June 3,1902.

Application iiled August 17, 1900. Serial No. 27,156. (No model.)

To all 2071,0722, it 72112.1 concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY PITT ROBERTS, of Boston, county of Suffoll,'State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Curtain Poles and Han gers, of which the following is adescription sufficiently full,- clear, and exact to enable any personskilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to makeand use To the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this speci fication, in which Figure 1 is an elevationof a portion of a on rtain-pole constructed in accordance with myimprovement and showing portions broken away and the lambrequins orportieres sus pended; Fig. 2, a cross-section on line 2 2 in- Fig. 1;Fig. 3, a front elevation, enlarged, of Fig. 4 is a side eleva theroller or trundle. tion of one of the hangers.

drawings.

My invention relates especially to that class 2 5 of curtain-poles whichare provided with traveling hangers adapted to support tapestries orportieres; and it consists in certain novel constructions in the hanger,traveler,'pole, and track, whereby a simple, cheap, and ef- 0 fectivedevice of this character'is produced.

The nature and operation'of fthe improvement will be understood by thoseconversant with such matters from the followingexplanation.

In the drawings,A represents the pole consideredas a whole. Thisordinarily is a com mon round rod of wood. Running longitudinally ofthis in what in use is the under side thereof I form a groove f, whichmay be de- 40 nominated triangular in crosssection with the base at thetop and the side walls g of which curve or converge downwardly towardthe mouth h, as shown in Fig. 2. These curved which a trundle m works.

use show only the eye 8.

I side walls form tracks for a trundle or ball m, which carries a hangerp, pendent through the slot-mouth h. It will of course be un= derstoodthat there is a series of these traveling hangers disposed in the slotor track The ball m, which is of a size to bear on both converging wallsg, has centrally an annular groove q, forming a shank, which journals ina hanger p. This hanger consists of a single strand of wire bent orlooped upon itself, form ing an eye 3, and the ends of its crossed armsbeing coiled to form journals 9, in each of The series of hangers p thuspendent from the slot f when in To these eyes the attaching-pins aredetachably hooked. The curtain O is attached to these pins and ma'n'ipulated in the usual manner of draw-curtains of this class, thetrundles m traveling gon' the walls'of the groove or slotf in a man Likeletters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the differentfigures of thener readily understood without a more explicitdescription. The weight of the curtain on the loop 3 of thespring-hanger described causes its arms to approach each other. As soonas relieved by, manipulation of the curtain they spring back andaffording two bearing-points amaterial distance apart facilitate ingreat degree the'running of the curtain.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- In a curtain-poleof .the class described the spring-hanger comprising a single strand ofwire bent centrally upon itself to form a loop and the ends of its armsthus formed being coiled to form journals, 1", in the same plane as saidloop; and trundles, m, mountedin said journals, the parts being so"arranged that 80 said trundles in action run in sequence.

HENRY PITT ROBER S.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, C. M. WILBUR.

